Hi All. I friend gave me a copy of Artcam 2008 and a USB thing to make it work. Got it installed and went through the process of converting a jpeg into a 3D carving. When I went to save the toolpaths to test the process, I couldn’t find a suitable gcode association to use. X-Carve isn’t listed and when I tried the generic gcode selection, it doesn’t work with Universal Gcode Sender.
Does anyone have a solution so I can use Artcam 2008 with my X-Carve? I would really like to turn photo’s into carvings and I can’t afford Aspire. I have V-Carve that I purchased with my X-Carve but not sure if I can use V-Carve to solve my problem.
Any help would be appreciated, Thanks

UGC would read the file but the bit would only move back and forth along the x axis about a 1/4 inch. Will try the Mach3. Apparently Artcam 2008 has a limited selection of output choices. Thanks for the responses.

These post processors should work with ArtCAM and the X-carve.
The inch version without Arc support has limited testing. The others are very similar but have not been tested yet.
Do not use the Arc versions with Easel. The Arc versions should work ok with other G-code senders.
If you find an error please report it here so that I can update these files for everyone.
xcarve_gcode_inch.con (1.3 KB) xcarve_gcode_mm.con (1.3 KB) xcarve_gcode_arcs_inch.con (1.5 KB) xcarve_gcode_arcs_mm.con (1.…

Was unable to get Artcam to recognize these .con files. Get an error message “configurable post processor failed to open…” Using Mach3gb-arcs(inch)ATC and that seems to work. Still having issues with the carve but think that’s due to my lack of understanding with Artcam.